The opposition party popular will (VP) on Tuesday demanded the “immediate liberation” of former deputy Freddy Superlanowho, warned, continues “completely isolated” since his arrest 14 months ago.
“Freddy has been completely isolated: without visits, without trial, without the right to see his family, not even his daughter,” VP wrote in an X message, in which he called the international community to “continue denouncing” the politician’s arrest.
In its publication, the party considered that Superlano is imprisoned “because they could not overcome it on the street or at the polls”, while describing its capture as a “kidnapping.”
“Freddy is not alone! Venezuela knows that his cause is fair!”
The former deputy was arrested on July 30, 2024 by “hooded officials”, as reported by the Vente Venezuela party, headed by the opposition leader María Corina Machado.
In September of that year, the Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, linked Superlano, together with the opponents of Chavism Perkins Rocha and Biagio Pilieri -also detained -, with the dissemination of more than 80% of the electoral records that the majority opposition claims to have collected in the presidential elections and that indicates as evidence of the claimed triumph of his candidate elections, Edmundo González Urrutia.
Superlano was a deputy of the National Assembly (AN, Parliament) that won the 2015 legislative elections, whose period was extended from 2016 to 2021.
In addition, the opponent was a candidate for the regional elections of 2021 by the Barinas state – according to the late President Hugo Chávez – and triumphed by a narrow margin, a result that was annulled by the Supreme Court of Justice under the argument that the opponent was disabled to participate.
A counting of the organization Criminal Forum, With a cut date as of September 29, the political prisoners in Venezuela figure in 838.
However, both the Government and the Prosecutor’s Office deny that in the country there are people detained for political reasons and ensure that these are citizens who committed crimes, an affirmation that several NGOs and opposition leaders reject.
